Community access channel TV-36, operated by the Town of Westfield
and the Board of Education, is exploring opportunities to increase and enhance
programming on TV-36. The possibilities are limited only by our imagination.
The priorities are determined by you. Help us understand your needs and interests by
selecting or commenting on any item in this survey:

What kinds of programs are you most interested in seeing on TV-36?
What kinds of programs on TV-36 do you think might attract the most viewers among
Westfield's 7000 cable subscribers?

The federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires that Comcast provide a
community channel for use by Westfield. How would you suggest spending programming
dollars that might be available to TV-36 from a variety of sources?
* Organizing volunteers
* Buying equipment
* Hiring camera people to record meetings and events
* Buying programs
* Building a community television studio

Businesses, organizations and individuals can sponsor programs they wish to encourage,
and get on-screen credit for their generous support. Can you make an offer of support
for your program idea, or do you have a suggestion that would connect a business
you patronize with TV-36?

How might you play a leadership role in community life in Westfield? Volunteers are
the heart of community television. Would you be willing to:
* Work behind the scenes to help build a TV-36 volunteer organization
* Volunteer to be an on-camera expert or personality, give presentations, etc.
* Volunteer to record school or community events you attend
* Take a piece of the 24-hour seven-day-per-week schedule as a producer
* Would rather that TV-36 pay students and others to record programs

Which areas of new technology would you favor to improve TV-36:
* Moderately-priced quality cameras for cinematography and video journalism
* A proposed self-service, crew-less community television studio
* Viewer e-mail and telephone call-ins live to TV-36
* State-of-the-art business-style presentation technology
* Stereo sound on TV-36
* Integrating the Internet and TV-36 to broadcast web pages and web cam
* Digital video and audio editing on desktop computers

Would you be interested in TV-36 training/orientation workshops?
* Would participate
* Would organize and/or lead
* Not interested

When viewing a live TV-36 program, would you:
* e-mail comments and questions to the studio
* O call in by telephone
* O send a letter O discuss topic with friends
* O wouldn't participate

Schedule of TV-36 programs should appear:
* In the newspaper
* On the Internet
* On TV-36's bulletin board

If school and community events were available, possibly for a fee, on videotape or
DVD disk at the library, or viewable on the Internet, would you be interested?
* Videotapes
* DVD's
* Internet
* Would pay a fee
* Not interested

Electronic bulletin board messages on TV-36 during non-program times can be
scheduled in a variety of ways. Please choose the options you prefer:
* Keep the sequence of bulletin board messages as it is now
* Play urgent messages mostly
* Play new messages mostly
* Play urgent or timely messages at scheduled times each hour, like newsradio
* Play certain categories of messages at selected times of the day only